John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Jan 11, 2012, 8:36 am
A knowmad is what I have previously termed a nomadic knowledge and innovation worker – that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Moreover, knowmads are valued for the personal knowledge that they possess, and this knowledge gi...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Jan 9, 2012, 9:16 am
De Baak‘s Ralph Blom wrote up a short interview with me for last month’s issue of Leadership and Entrepreneurship. My favorite bit: What skills are needed in a society 3.0? “Because everybody is in it together it is not bounded by a specific generation. Nobody has done this before, there ar...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Jan 6, 2012, 10:49 am
In what has evolved into a sort of annual tradition, I again peered into my crystal ball (well, actually a truckload of reports, news articles, and a healthy dose of my own speculation) to see what we can expect in 2012. This time, however, I spoke with David Raths at Campus Technology magazine, and...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Dec 13, 2011, 1:44 pm
This morning, Inside Higher Ed posted an article by Steve Kolowich on students from universities around the world earning credit by participating in an experimental Stanford University course that is being broadcasted at no (additional) cost: That A.I. course was the flagship of a trio of Stanford ...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Nov 29, 2011, 1:09 pm
The world is indeed flattening, and we are very happy. Since March, Cristóbal and I have presented Invisible Learning in a dozen countries, and at more than 35 events for debate and discussion. The outcomes from the project exceed our expectations — and, more importantly, open the debate to a wi...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Nov 17, 2011, 8:06 am
From TEDxBrisbane: Edward Harran shares his personal story into the knowmad movement: an emerging digital generation that has the capacity to work, learn, move and play – with anybody, anytime, and anywhere. In his energetic talk, Edward gives us a compelling insight into his story and highlights ...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Nov 13, 2011, 4:37 pm
A lot has happened in the past week, and I feel that bits and pieces are coming together to form a huge break from the mainstream in human capital development in the Netherlands. In brief: On Monday, I visited TEDxDelft at TU Delft. The day was very well organized and included a selection of talks...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Nov 4, 2011, 9:59 am
As the 21st century digital revolution continues to disrupt the economy, and the traditional knowledge claim held by experts of the 20th century is making way for a global entrepreneurial mindset, (university) education finds itself on the verge of its most radical transformations since the industri...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Oct 11, 2011, 7:31 am
One of the key points we make in Invisible Learning is that new technologies and new possibilities for social configurations are expanding the ecology of options we have for learning. “Schooling” is no longer limited to just schools. Rather, we can now learn in formal environments, online, inf...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Sep 15, 2011, 9:35 am
With the free release of Invisible Learning (Aprendizaje Invisible), I am pleased to share the original English version of the epilogue, penned by Roger Schank. The full Spanish-language text of Invisible Learning may be downloaded directly from http://www.invisiblelearning.com/download Epilogue: ...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Sep 14, 2011, 7:28 pm
Cristóbal Cobo and I are pleased to announce that the Spanish edition of Invisible Learning (Aprendizaje Invisible) is now released as a free PDF download. You can download the book at http://www.invisiblelearning.com/download We are thankful to Hugo Pardo Kuklinski, the series coordinator, for a...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Sep 4, 2011, 9:21 am
This article from the New York Times on the use of technology in classrooms and test scores merited a response: Dear Mr. Richtel– I enjoyed your article “In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores” — but I have a key concern. The entire “debate” around the use of technology in classrooms...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Sep 1, 2011, 7:08 pm
Uffe Elbæk is a social entrepreneur, politician, and cultural leader in Denmark. In his knowmadic career so far, he founded the KaosPilots school in Århus, organized the World Outgames 2009, and the Change the Game consultancy. Currently, Uffe is running for a seat in the Danish parliament as cand...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Aug 17, 2011, 2:39 pm
As we shared earlier, Project Dream School started with a simple question: If you could build a dream school, what would you do? This morning, I received some inspiring ideas. Elena Stateva writes, Dear Dr. Moravec, I would like to share with the you the Dream Schools of my students. They worked...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Aug 15, 2011, 9:30 am
Book: The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get The College Education You Pay For Author: Naomi Schaefer Riley Publisher: Ivan R Dee (2011) The pot of gold at the end of the tenure review process is still job security, even though powerful forces are working against the continuity ...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Aug 8, 2011, 8:29 am
Book: 2011 state of the future Authors: Jerome C. Glenn, Theodore J. Gordon, and Elizabeth Florescu Publisher: The Millennium Project (August, 2011) Released last week, the Millennium Project’s 2011 state of the future report contains a sobering warning that: The world is getting richer, healthi...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Aug 4, 2011, 8:38 am
Make no mistake. Adobe makes great products. But, it is hard for educators and students to connect with them. First, the company produces professional-grade tools (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, etc.), and, as a result, they are very expensive for resource-starved institutions to purchase (...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Jul 24, 2011, 10:00 am
I met up with Ali Hossaini in Amsterdam and Noordwijk earlier this month. In this short interview we made, Ali states that “to think out of the box, you have to start out of the box, and we’re not letting people leave it right now in the current educational institutions.” He advocates for app...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Jul 19, 2011, 7:13 pm
A couple weeks ago, I had an opportunity to visit the Waag Society in Amsterdam. I met with Keimpe de Heer, director of the Creative Learning Lab, and he is focused on innovating in human potential development and education. Paired with a Fab Lab, they aim to develop the community they serve into p...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Jun 23, 2011, 8:21 pm
The response has been phenomenal! Just two months after the release of the Spanish edition of Invisible Learning, Cristóbal Cobo and I have given talks in Argentina, Czech Republic, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, and the United States. We also have near-term plans for additional talks in these countr...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - May 28, 2011, 3:05 am
This piece from KQED captured my attention: a number of authors and high-profile businesspeople and entrepreneurs are debunking the notion that college is the best solution. They’re questioning whether paying tens of thousands of dollars and investing four or five years in an institution should b...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - May 23, 2011, 12:49 pm
My frequent collaborators, Arthur Harkins and George Kubik, recently published an article on “ethical” cheating for On the Horizon. That is, “cheating” within “the context of digital-era learning that involves open-source collaboration and the ready sharing of ideas, knowledge, and infor...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - May 20, 2011, 1:18 pm
In the current issue of On the Horizon, Arthur Harkins and I introduce systemic approaches to knowledge development and application — that is, a framework which provides a systems-language descriptive means for understanding and engaging in an expanding ecology of knowledge development options. W...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - May 12, 2011, 5:13 pm
By popular demand, here are the slides from my Invisible Learning “stump lecture” from the past month: Perspectives on invisible learning In an era of globalization and “flattening” of our relatiohships around the Earth, how can we learn better? What happened to learning as we moved from...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Apr 28, 2011, 7:53 am
Cristóbal Cobo and I are pleased to announce that the Spanish edition of our new book, Invisible Learning (Aprendizaje Invisible), has just been released by the University of Barcelona (Col·lecció Transmedia XXI. Laboratori de Mitjans Interactius / Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Bar...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Apr 4, 2011, 10:18 am
John Moravec and Cristóbal Cobo engage in a one-on-one dialogue on new dimensions for thinking about learning. In this conversation, they share some of the most important ideas developed in the book, Aprendizaje Invisible (Invisible Learning), to be released next week. More information is availabl...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Mar 28, 2011, 2:14 pm
Libraries are actively reinventing themselves for the digital age.  Confronted with corrosive budgets, skyrocketing costs, and challenged by a fear of obsolesce resulting from the accelerating rate of technological change; libraries are struggling for their survival.  For the academic library �...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Mar 27, 2011, 11:02 am
Finally, after several weeks of travel and meetings, I am able to report on the Invisible Learning Tour, which was hosted by NHL in Leeuwarden. The event was an example of self-organization. Given the seed of an idea, three universities, two Sudbury schools, the Knowmads school, and various other ...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Feb 28, 2011, 8:05 am
As the Invisible Learning book enters the final layout stage this week (expect the release in April), Cristóbal Cobo and I are already delivering talks, workshops, and seminars on the topic. Already, in addition to our home base countries, we have been invited to speak in Argentina, Colombia, Czec...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Feb 10, 2011, 8:04 am
At Lift11, Marcel Kampman of Project Dream School shared experiences from a movement to leapfrog ahead and rethink how we educate and teach our kids. What makes the project exciting is that it is directly linked to the construction of a new school building for an existing school in the Netherlands. ...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Jan 31, 2011, 12:48 pm
This morning, MPR’s Midmorning aired a forum on the role of social media and education. From the program’s description: How can social media and technology influence the way students learn and the way teachers teach? Kerri Miller hosted a live forum discussion with a Minnesota-based entreprene...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Dec 30, 2010, 8:56 am
Continuing a tradition started in years past, I list out my predictions for the key stories that will rock the education world in 2011. If I could put it into five words, 2011 will be all about...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Dec 20, 2010, 7:23 am
About a year ago, Cristóbal Cobo and I announced a research project called Invisible Learning. After many months of work, collecting experiences, researching literature, interviews, and exchanges with experts (and –above all– many hours of writing), we can announce that in 2011 the Invisible L...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Dec 14, 2010, 9:58 am
The Knowmads have released their new brochure, which I made available for download at futr.es/knowbro. Please give it a read and spread the word! Knowmads is a school in the Netherlands that launched in January of this year. Much of the school — including the name itself — is based on the Kno...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Dec 12, 2010, 10:32 am
Last month, Douglas Rushkoff released “Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age,” a book on how to manage your freedom and identity in a social media-powered world. The question he asks –and I think this is critical for educators to consider– is do we lead in using technolog...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Dec 9, 2010, 4:26 pm
Book: The rough guide to the future Author: Jon Turney Publisher: Rough Guides (2010) Last month, Rough Guides quietly released Jon Turney’s new book, The rough guide to the future. I was looking forward to the release of the volume –not just because I’m quoted in one of its asides– but bec...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Dec 2, 2010, 9:26 am
Seth Godin on schools: “… over and over and over again the curious are punished.” CURIOSITY from Nic Askew on Vimeo. (Thanks to @KnowmadsNL for finding and sharing this video!)
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Nov 30, 2010, 3:08 pm
Startl has announced a $25,000 competition, soliciting business plans for best uses of Open Educational Resources. The prize is modest, but this could turn into a generator of alternative ideas for education. From their blog: In partnership with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Gra...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Nov 29, 2010, 11:08 am
Book: Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business Author: Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press (2010) Back in August, Josh Bernoff tweeted an offer for a free copy of his new book, Empowered, in exchange for a review at A...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Nov 21, 2010, 12:30 pm
As Cristóbal Cobo and I are working on wrapping up the Invisible Learning book, promotion for the volume is already starting to appear. Although we anticipate its release in February, 2011, we’ve been giving a few talks on the topic, and thought I’d share some of the slides I’ve been using a...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Nov 11, 2010, 10:31 am
As we are hard at work on getting everything in the Invisible Learning book finalized, it’s been quiet at the Education Futures website — but, believe us, you will be hearing a lot more soon. Here are a couple quick updates from elsewhere that focus on the changing nature of work and the import...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Oct 28, 2010, 11:09 am
Book: 21st Century Skills: Learning for life in our times Author: Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel Publisher: Jossey-Bass (2009) Some ten years into the 21st century, I find it amazing that we are still having conversations on what skills are necessary to succeed in this new century. We’ve explo...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Sep 27, 2010, 1:37 pm
Norman Augustine, former chairman of Lockheed Martin Corp. and lead author of Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5, appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box last Friday: From the report’s description: So where does America stand relative to its position of five year...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Aug 17, 2010, 8:16 am
Book: Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools Author: Milton Chen Publisher: Jossey-Bass Teacher (July, 2010) Like sunspots, books critical of the education system seem to follow periodic cycles. And, it seems we’ve hit a high point over the past year or so. We’ve see...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Aug 12, 2010, 5:49 pm
From Consult Minnesota’s press release: John Moravec predicts a revolution, and is calling on Minnesota technology consultants to help make it happen. During his presentation to Consult Minnesota Thursday, Aug. 19 at 6 p.m. in the Walnut Room of Axel’s Char House at the Roseville Radisson Hote...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Aug 9, 2010, 10:29 am
If you’re following Education Futures on Twitter, you may have noticed that we have quietly designed a general futures project named FUTRes (http://futr.es). FUTRes is a short blog of hand-curated news and trends that drive our futures. We seek out the best resources for futures news on the Net, ...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Aug 7, 2010, 7:10 pm
An interesting webcast by Amber Case (from O’Reilly Media’s YouTube channel): Note: Cross-posted from FUTR.es.
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Aug 4, 2010, 12:35 pm
Spotted on the Long Now Blog: Philip Zimbardo’s talk on the Secret Powers of Time wonderfully illustrated in pseudo-realtime by RSA animate.
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Jul 29, 2010, 1:45 pm
Victor Yu (Udemy) interviewed John Moravec, editor of Education Futures. He argues that technologies need to be used to help students learn how to think … not tell them what to think: “I believe we need to engineer new technologies to help them HOW to learn, not WHAT to learn. Our school system...
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John Moravec posted an article on Education Futures - Jul 24, 2010, 2:15 pm
As we continue to enjoy our reduced workloads over the summer, here is a summary of developments from elsewhere of interest to the Education Futures community. NASA and Virtual Heroes (@NASAgames on Twitter) launched Moonbase Alpha, a game designed to spark youth interest in exploration beyond Eart...
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